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All right. Where the children are going out with Miss Carol at children’s church. Have a good time with them.
So be praying for the children. I mean, Miss Carol, as they’re going. If you want to turn in your bibles out, we have the pages on the back there.
If you want to keep up with the notes to Isaiah, chapter 26. I want to tell you that I have been in a place in the last few months, weeks, near to the heart of God, where he has drawn me close and shown me some things. And I’m glad to be back.
I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve been here, with all that’s going on, with my ideal going on and out of town and all that. But I’m just glad to be here and to be able to share with you this morning. I want to share with you some things that I just feel like the Lord’s laid on my heart and has been showing me the last few months.
I guess as we’ve gone through difficult times, trying times, and still, just like many of you, every day things are difficult. We’re all going through struggles. And sometimes in those struggles, we have a hard time of finding peace.
We have a hard time of finding comfort. And so I want to talk to you today. The title of my message is, no God.
Kn o w, you know peace. But if there’s no God, no, there’s no peace. Now, that’s not original to me, but I’ve always liked that saying, know God.
Know him. You know peace. But if there’s no God in your life, if he’s not first and foremost in your life, you’re not going to have peace.
The world we live in a day, we want peace. They chant all the time. Remember back in the 70s? They say, just give peace a chance.
The whole world wants peace all the time. We cry for peace. A few years ago, then they think that injustice was done.
They come up with a chant, no justice, no peace. Everybody wants to peace. We want to threaten with peace.
The world wants peace. We buy things all the time and think that’s going to make me happy. That’s going to give me peace.
That’s going to give me joy. We go on vacations, and vacations are awesome. We went on our cruise last week and I sit on that balcony and just watch the ocean go by like this.
And didn’t find much peace there. But there is peaceful evenings, sunsets, and we do those things on vacation, and they’re great. But you know what? Then you come back to reality.
You’re like, wow, I wish I had that peace all the time. I wish I could get that peace. You want to get away from it all? Let’s just get out of here, get away from all the hustle and bustle of life, and we’ll find peace there.
We hop from friend to friend, church to church, job to job, location to location, all in the endeavor to find peace. But we find that it’s never enough. We have to come back to reality.
You know, the reality may be, if you’re not finding peace, it’s not where you are, what you have, what’s going on in your life. The problem just may be what’s in your heart. You ever thought about that? May just be you.
There’s a little joke I like, and I heard it just this past week, and I thought, well, that’s funny. But I didn’t realize Lord might want me to just use this as an example. The problem just may be you.
There were three men that died and went to heaven. And when they got know, everybody goes, St. Peter and all that, but they got there.
And maybe St. Peter says, look, welcome to heaven. We only have one rule here is you can’t step on a duck.
What? And so the three men look around. There’s ducks everywhere. I mean, you couldn’t hardly walk anywhere for ducks.
And the first man said, oh, I got to be careful. And boom, he steps on a duck. St.
Peter comes up and ties the ugliest woman in the world to him and said, that’s your punishment for eternity for stepping on a duck. The next man says, well, I’m going to be a little bit more cautious. He lasted about an hour, and squish.
He steps on a duck. Here comes St. Peter.
He ties a duck, ugliest woman in the world to him, said, there’s your punishment for stepping on a duck. The next man says, you know what? I’m not stepping on a duck. Boy.
He didn’t go anywhere. He stayed at home. He was very cautious in everything he did, and he lasted about six months.
And one day, St. Peter comes up with the most beautiful woman in the world, ties it to him and says, you are together for eternity. The man says, wow.
He looks at her and he says, what in the world did I do to deserve such a beautiful woman like you? She said, I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck. You may be the problem of why you don’t have peace. Let’s look at that today.
Why don’t you have peace? As I said, the world’s looking for that, and it’s everywhere. But in Romans 317, the Bible tells us that the way of peace, have they not known? Have the wicked not known, those who strive for it and look for it everywhere but in God? He said, they’ve never known peace. Isaiah 48 22, there is no peace.
Seth, the Lord, unto the wicked, though this world will never find true peace, they’ll cry one day, peace. Peace. And Bible says, sudden destruction cometh.
They’re looking for peace. Romans eight six. For to be carnally minded is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace.
Father, as we come to you today, we study your word. Lord, we just thank you for the peace that passes all understanding. We thank you that we see you working in our midst and to bring us through storms and trials and frustrations.
And we find peace in you. But, Lord, there’s many of us here that are not today if they’d be honest in peace. We pray now, Lord, that you would just reveal to us the truth of your word.
Show us our hearts that we may find peace in you today. Lead and guide me in every word that I say, every verse that’s read, that you would get all the honor, the glory and the praise. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen. See, we are created in the image of God. Do you know what God’s name is for peace? Jehovah’s shalom.
In Hebrew, shalom means peace. And we are created in his image. I think that’s the very reason we crave peace.
We want peace. We want comfort because that’s what our creator is. That’s what our heavenly Father is.
He is love. He is also peace. And we find peace in him.
Now in Isaiah 26, we’ll read verses three and four. Isaiah is speaking. Israel has gone through some difficult times and struggles.
And Isaiah honestly has a message of woes and problems that Israel is facing because they’ve been disobedient to God. But in Isaiah 26, verse three, he says, thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever.
For the Lord Jehovah is an everlasting strength. We will not find perfect peace outside of keeping our mind and our eyes fixed on him. You can do whatever you want.
This world can try as hard as they might. But until God is the center of your world, you will not find that peace that only he can give. Isaiah confirmed he will give perfect peace to who? Those whose mind is stayed on him.
He gives us his strength. And like I said, in the last few months, weeks, I could have gotten a lot of bent sideways and out of shape over a lot of things. And to be quite honest with you, I have a few days.
Y’all just. Robin, you be quiet. I’m not perfect, but through it all, I’ve seen, I guess I’ve had so many people, when my father passed away in June, said, brother, it’s going to be the hardest thing you ever went through in your life.
I’ve been there. And you’re going to miss him every day. And I got that.
I do. I miss my daddy. People told me yesterday, I can’t imagine how difficult that must have been for you to stand up and speak at your mother’s service.
Well, the other week when for some reason the nerve in my eye went bad, and I’m praising the Lord today, I’m not wearing a patch, but one eye was going that way and one eye was going this way, and I had to hold my eye open. They couldn’t even open it to see. Just three weeks ago, they said, what are you going to do? Well, I’m going to loot people like this, I guess there’s nothing I do except for the Lord.
The Lord’s given me peace through all of this. And I wondered if there’s. Is there something wrong with me? I mean, yes, I missed my dad.
That was sad. Yes. I missed my mom.
That was sad. Yes. Going with my in laws is difficult.
But I’m here to tell you today I have experienced a peace that I don’t understand, even to the point that I think something’s wrong with me. I’m not in my right mind, David. No, I feel like I’m not even in my right mind because everybody’s telling me, this is terrible.
I don’t know how you’re going to do it, but God. But God has given me a peace that has passed it all understanding. And I’m standing here and praising for it today, not because of who I am, but because who I’m looking to.
God was in control of my daddy’s life. God was in control of my mother’s life. God’s in control of my eye.
God’s in control of what happens in this church. God’s in control of all things. And if we’re looking to him, we can’t say, okay, lord, what are you doing? What are you showing me? Where do you want me to go from here? I trust you, boy.
If we could get to that point, boy, God does some miraculous things in our hearts and our minds. But the truth is, that’s hard. That’s easy preaching, isn’t it? And hard living, especially when the times are difficult, especially when the seas are raging, the storms are fierce, we often lose our sight.
You see, a lot of people want to say, well, what is the definition of peace? Well, some would say, well, peace has mean there’s no more wars, no more fighting in this world. That’s peace. That’s the absence of war, that’s the absence of strife, that’s the absence of difficulties.
What’s peace to me? When I think of something peaceful, I’m thinking of mountains and a little log cabin by a stream. And me sitting on the front porch with my fishing pole, there’s peace. I forgot the mountain lion behind the cabin is about to eat me.
So see, even in that there could not be peace, not perfect peace as God. It’s not the absence of all my problems. Perfect peace that is described here, that only God can give is peace in the midst of your storm, peace during your strife and your difficulties, a peace that comes on you, that passes all to the point that passes all understanding, that it comes to the point that you wonder if something’s even wrong with you.
How can I feel such peace in my heart when the whole world has fallen apart? That’s the perfect peace that God gives when your mind is stayed on him. See, this peace is a peace in the storm, a peace in the difficult not don’t take them away. Jesus prayed.
Remember, in John, chapter 17, he said, I don’t pray that you take them out of the world, but in the world, that they have peace in the world as they go through all this. Father, protect them. Give them your love.
Give them their peace, that they can go and do the things that you would have them to do. So we live in a restless world, but we have the promise of peace. One corinthians 1433.
For God is not the author of confusion. What’s he telling us there? In this world there is confusion. It’s all around us.
And Paul is making it clear to these corinthians that God is not the author of all this confusion going on around you. What is the author of peace? As in all the churches of the saints, you have a church. It’s just Yanyan Yan Yan Yamanya back at each other.
What’s the problem? I hope you already know by now. Our attention is not on him. Our attention is somewhere else.
We’re being distracted by something other than what God’s plan and purpose is. John 1633, probably my most favorite bible verse. Jesus is getting ready to go to the cross and die for the sins of the world.
And he’s telling his disciples these things. Have I spoken to you everything that I’ve told you the last three and a half years? I’ve told you this, that ye might have peace in the world, ye shall have tribulations. He said, that doesn’t mean all your trials and your tribulations will go away, but you’ll have peace in those difficulties.
But he says, this is where you get your peace. He says, I have overcome the world. So all these difficulties in this world, all the problems that sin has caused, I can stand here and praise Christ, my savior, that he’s overcome it all, and I’m in him and he’s in me.
Do you understand that? The mental attitude that we need to have, it’s all in his control. He’s already won the battle. This is just a short time here on earth.
He’s working all things for his purpose, for his plan, for his glory. Let’s look at a few instances in the Bible that people got in trouble because they took their eyes off of God, that they didn’t have the peace that God wanted. We can go all the way back to Adam and Eve, and we see where they were in a beautiful garden.
Probably had that log cabin with the trout stream in front of it. Everything was perfect. Everything that God created was well pleasing.
They had it made. If anybody had peace, they did, in a perfect atmosphere that God had created for that’s what he intended for us. But they saw some fruit, a fruit that God says, don’t touch that, don’t go near that.
They were tempted by Satan. And when they saw that fruit, their desires, their wants did not line up with God’s plan, did not line up with what God had said. So you see here, Adam and Eve, the root of their losing their peace, losing their.
And, well, we know sin entered the world. A lot of things happened. But ultimately, Adam and Eve lost this perfect place of peace because their wants overcame God’s desires for them people, we can get where our wants.
Well, I want this. I think we ought to do this. And when that don’t happen or you don’t get what you want, you’re like a three year old little kid that falls down the floor kicking, screaming an hour, and I don’t get my way.
Hello. I didn’t get one amen out of that. When your wants are not God’s wants, when your desires are not God’s desires for you, you lose your looking, your mind is not stayed on him.
We see that with Adam and Eve. Let’s go to Moses. Moses had several things that brought him some frustration.
But he led the children of Israel out of Egypt and toward the promised land. And then one day, they all got thirsty. And God says, strike the rock.
So Moses struck the Rock. Water poured forth. God provided his provision.
Great, right? Well, then another day comes along. They get thirsty again. And God says, speak to the rock.
Now, keep in mind all the church members. I mean, the children of Israel were. Yan Yan.
Yan. Yan. Yan.
Yan. Yang. We’re thirsty.
We should have been in Egypt. You brought us out here to die. And as the leader of them, Moses got so frustrated, so irritated at the whole situation, he struck the rock and lost his peace.
Because of that, Moses never entered the promised land. It’s not heaven. He lost that joy.
He lost that victorious christian life that God wanted for him here on earth. He lost his peace because he let his circumstances control his actions, rather than obeying God. Point number two.
Point number one. When our wants or desires are not God’s wants or desires. Number two.
How do we lose our peace? When we let our circumstances overrule God, we let our circumstances dictate our actions. We get in trouble and we lose our peace. Are y’all enjoying this day? You don’t seem like it.
Just smile at me every now and make me think you are maybe hitting home a little bit. It’s hitting home to me. But this is the truth of God’s word.
And he gives us examples for that over and over and over. Let’s go on to. Israel is supposed to be going into the promised land.
God’s promised this all the way back to their father, Abraham. Thank you, sweetheart. You read my mind.
Somebody did. Jack. Read my mind.
Thank you, Jack. You’ve been here before, hadn’t you? They’re about to go into the promised land that had been promised all the way back to Abraham. For years, God has promised them this land.
And finally they come to the land. And here we are. God’s fulfilling his promise.
They sent out Joshua, says, hey, you twelve spies. Go up there and check out. And let’s see where we’re going to cross the Jordan.
And let’s get a game plan together. How we’re going to reap God’s baniful blessings. And they come back with their tail between the legs.
We’ve seen it, and it’s beautiful and it’s great. But wow, there’s giants in the land, and we’re grasshoppers. In their sight.
What? What did God say about the land? It’s yours. He didn’t say anything about giants. He didn’t say anything about problems.
He said, it’s yours. But all they focused on was the giants. All they focused on was the difficulties.
Their problem was bigger than God’s provisions. Anybody ever been there? I know God can do all things, but, wow, I’m in a mess. I know God can do all things, but I’m not sure he’d do it for me.
Hello. Man, y’all quiet today. Somebody turn a heat off? See your problems become more bigger than what you think God can do or will do.
Is that the truth of God’s word? I’ll never leave you or forsake you. My God will supply all your needs according to my riches on earth. According to his riches.
Is there a limit on his riches? God’s provision is bigger than your problem. God. Did you think God just learned about the giants? When they come back and told him about it, he knew they were there and he knew he wanted them to drive them out, but they were afraid.
Their problem was bigger than God’s provision. Our wants become greater than God’s wants. Our circumstances control our actions.
We lose our peace. Our problems become bigger than God’s provisions, we lose our peace. You seeing what’s going on here? Well, if you haven’t, I got some more for you.
How about when Peter walked on the water? Let’s go to the New Testament, Brother Kenny. Let’s talk something that applies to us. I said that facetiously, all scripture applies to us.
But some want to say, well, the New Testament’s more better to. Okay, so let’s talk about Peter. They’re in a storm, they’re in a boat, and they’d had a wonderful day of Jesus preaching and teaching and doing miracles and all these things.
And Jesus says, y’all go on ahead of me. Well, he probably didn’t say Ewans or you guys. Y’all go ahead of me.
I’m going to go up here and pray with my father for a little while. I’ll send the crowd away. I’m going to do some praying.
I’ll meet you over there. Meet you on the other side. So he sended the disciples out.
This big storm comes up. They’re terrified. I mean, they think they’re going to die.
And then they see someone, something, a silhouette of something out in the middle of the water in the storm, just walking on the water. Boy, that’d been awesome to see, wouldn’t it. I’d been just like them.
It’s a ghost. We’re about to die. Do you know that they believed in that time, especially the sailors and stuff, that if they were in a storm and they were about to capsize and all drowned and die, a lot of them believed that they would see a ghost just before they died.
That terrified him even more. They didn’t realize it was Jesus coming. But when Peter identified and said, it’s the Lord, he said, lord, bid me to come to you.
And Jesus says, come. Oh, Peter jumps out the boat. Peter’s walking on water, he’s on cloud nine.
He’s in Sunday morning worship service, praising God. Everything is great. Until Monday morning came and he took his eyes off of Jesus and began to look at his circumstances, look at the storm around him.
And then Peter began to sink. Then he cried out to the Lord, save me. Jesus reached down and pulled him up out of the water.
See, we get in difficulties and storms of life and we think on Sunday morning everything’s great. I love the Lord and he’s going to supply all my needs. And then Monday or Tuesday comes and Satan or difficulties come and we forget about what we praising the Lord for on Sunday.
And we start focusing on all of our problems, the storm of life that we’re going through. And then by Friday we’re just so beat down and wore out and just don’t know how we’re going to make it. And we finally, after all that, we just crowd, Lord, help me, I’ve been there and he’s helped me.
But see, just like Peter, we focus on the storm. We get our eyes off of the savior. We think we’re in over our heads.
But you understand, Peter was in over his head, way over his head, wasn’t he? What happened? First Jesus said, come here. See, Jesus called him out in over his head. We don’t want to talk about that too much, do we? Sometimes God puts us in a position where we’re in over our heads and we can do nothing but cry out to him.
But what we don’t want to do is cry out. We don’t want to disturb him. God’s so busy.
I mean, he can’t be dealing with my little problem. What he wants you to do is say, lord, help me. I trust in you.
Get your focus back on him. Then he gives you peace. Then he puts you in the boat, then he calms the storm, but only after you get your focus back on him.
Have you got it yet? Well, I got one more. It’s another storm. This time, Jesus is in the boat.
The disciples are going, hey, they’re expert fishermen. To navigate the seas and storms are absolutely no problem for them. They can do this.
Been there. I got this. I mean, I’ve got a college degree after a while.
That teaches me this. I’ve been there. I’ve done that.
I know how to handle these problems. So here they are. The storm comes.
It’s getting worse. Peter’s john, don’t just sit there. Bail, water boy.
Pick up an oar, somebody. I can see Peter just barking orders. And all along, the ship is steadily sinking, filling with water, getting worse and worse, until finally they do cry out, Lord, carest thou not? Did we perish? See, a lot of times we do that.
Oh, I can handle this, Lord. I got it. You’d be right there.
I got this, Lord. We don’t want to bother Jesus. He’s sleeping.
When the truth is, if we would go back here and just lay down with Jesus and let the waves just rock us to sleep, we’d have the same peace Jesus does, knowing that his time is not yet. That’s not God’s purpose and his plan for him. Jesus told him at the beginning, what’d he say? Let’s go to the other side.
He didn’t say, go get in a boat. We’re all going to drown. He said, we’re going to the other side.
So when you get your eyes off of the promises of God, when you’ve done everything that you know you’re supposed to do and it still don’t work, frustration sets in, don’t it, boy? You get mad. Every red light in town makes you mad. Things seem bleak.
People seem crazier than normal. You get mad and frustrated at the whole world because I’ve done all I know to do, and it still ain’t working, Lord. And you put me here, and it just ain’t working like I thought it should.
Am I all by myself here? Anybody ever been there? Yeah, frustration can set in, especially when you know better, right? I used to have a friend says, if I know I’m getting ready to mess up and I do it anyway, am I learning anything? See, we think just because we’ve been somewhere before and we got this, you know what? That was just one step. But God’s maybe brought you to another level, and he was testing his disciples, just like he does with us today. Are you going to trust me in the storm? Are you going to listen to my promise? Are you going to obey me? No matter how much the seas rage.
Are you going to rest in me? Are you going to keep your mind fixed on me to have perfect peace? Are you going to do your own thing? People, I’m talking to myself today. And I think all of us in one of these situations or another, you can apply this to your own life. See, the truth is, if you are living for you, you cannot expect to live in peace.
What are we called to do as christians? We live for him. We’re his servants. He’s our Lord, he’s our savior.
And I am learning and learning and learning. And I’m hardhead as I can be. I know that Lord has to hit me right between the eyes with a two before all the time to get my attention.
But I’m learning as if I’ll just shut up, stop considering what I want, what I think is best. Boy, the frustrations go away, the things I desire, the things that I think is best. Usually when I think I’ve got it all figured out, it’s just the opposite of what God wants.
So I’m just learning. Just okay. Lord, it’s your church.
I’m your servant. It’s not my life, it’s yours. What does that mean? What does he say? We must die to ourself.
That means not a physical death. But I die to my wants, I die to my circumstances, I die to my fears, I die to my glory. That’s a tough one.
I die to my pride, I die to my own strength. I know without him I can do nothing. I trust him for every step of the way, I put my trust in him.
Only then will we have peace. Only then and we can get all upset and we can get frustration set in. And all you’re doing when you say that or you acknowledge that when I just say I’m so frustrated.
I can’t believe this is going this way. Just mark it on your hand with a pencil or tie a string around your finger. Your eyes aren’t focused on him.
Then you’re telling yourself something. God’s telling you something. If you’re frustrated, if you’re irritated, if you don’t have peace about what’s going on, you’re not focused here.
You’re focused here of what your desires and what you want. See, all we do must line up with God’s plan, his purpose and his timing for his glory. I know easy preaching, hard living, but that’s the truth.
That’s what it means, I believe, to keep my mind set on him. God, I want to do it according to your plan for your purpose. I want to do it in your timing.
Well, that’s a tough one. I pray all the time, Lord, give me patience and hurry up about it. But I got to wait on him because I know in the end he gets all the glory.
That’s what should be our motto. It’s so important for us to live and to be in peace. It’s so important that God sent his holy spirit to live and then indwell us.
It’s important that we live in peace. How so, Brother Kenny, why don’t you look up the word peace in the Bible? It’s mentioned over 400 times. Scripture after scripture after scripture that talks about his children live in peace.
It is so important that he give his holy spirit to live within us. And the fruit of the Holy Spirit. First is love.
Second is joy. The third. Guess what? What? Peace.
The fruits. We’ll know them by their fruits with their barren fruits. That means that you pass out tracks everywhere you go, right? That means you witnessed.
That means people are getting saved right and left because of what you’re saying and doing. Because you went to church, because you teach Sunday school, because you’re a deacon, because you fill in the blank. I’ve got fruit.
No, you don’t. If you don’t have love, joy, peace, long suffering, that’s the fruits of the spirit. When we display this joy, unspeakable and full of glory in the midst of our problems, when we have peace that passes, all understand that the world can look at us and say, I don’t understand why you’re so at peace.
That’s fruit. That’s God’s fruit showing through you. That’s his holy spirit working in you.
That’s the fruit that God wants to show. See, when we have peace in the midst of our storms, others will know we’re God’s children. How do I know that? Matthew 59 says, blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You got somebody that’s always going around stirring the pot and causing troubles. I’m looking at you, David. Now he don’t.
But somebody that can live peaceably with all men and love all men and women, consider one another, love one another, encourage one another, strengthen one another. That’s a child of God. Somebody is always going around making trouble and mad at the world like somebody licked all the red off their candy.
You might want to check up the peace of God’s not here. Your focus is not on him because the Bible says if your focus is on him, you’ll be in peace in the midst of any tribulation, trial, storm, strife. You’ll be in peace.
He promises that in his word, he’ll give you a peace that passes all understanding. I can stand here today and say, I know that. I know that.
I know that. He has showed me that over the last few months and weeks, a piece that I can’t describe to you, a peace that only I think I can explain, is my God, which shall supply all my needs. He gives me peace.
He’s given me strength for his honor, for his glory, to work his purpose and his plan in my life. And I praise him for it. A few months ago, I was praying, and I said, lord, I just really know.
We see the Red Sea and all the miracles you did. Lord, I just like to see you work. I want to see you do some things.
That would have been awesome to be Moses, wouldn’t it? Or the disciples in the storm and see all that. And I would just pray, Lord, just let me have a glimpse of. See just you working that I know it’s you.
There’s no other explanation. Boy, I should have never prayed that prayer, because he did. But he did in a way that I never thought.
But he gave me a peace and a joy. He gave me strength that I never could have imagined. I’ve seen him work in the last few weeks and months, and I praise him for it.
I praise him that he is my savior even when I’m weak. Philippians four seven. And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus.
James 317 says, but the wisdom that is from above is first pure, and then it’s peaceable. See, when we understand what God’s doing, his wisdom, his ways, his plan, his purpose, his time, it’s a pure. It’s pure thoughts to recognize who he is, what he’s doing for his purpose, his plan.
And it’s peaceable. It gives me peace in the midst of my trials, in the midst of my storms, in the midst of my strife. And I can stand here and say, thank you, Lord.
Now, next week, y’all will have to remind me of my message. I understand that because I’m human. But today I praise God for his unspeakable peace and joy.
And if you’ve seen it in me in these last few months or so, don’t say Kenny. Well, you’re awesome. Say, Kenny.
Worship an awesome God, Lord. Keep him in your hands. Pray for me.
Because whenever God’s working, I know this, too. Whenever God’s up to something, doing something, Satan, don’t like it. And he’ll come to steal, kill and destroy, to bring confusion, to bring doubt, to bring fear.
That’s what Satan does. But my God brings peace, perfect peace, and strengthens us in all of our needs. Father, we thank you for this day.
Just want to stand here and just tell you we love you. We don’t deserve your grace. We don’t deserve your mercy.
We don’t deserve your love. We don’t deserve your peace. But you reached down and brought us out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay and set our feet on the rock.
And I just want to praise you for that today. I want to thank you for the peace that has passed all understanding that I can stand before your people and share. I know my God is real.
I serve a living savior and he lives within my heart. Thank you, Lord. I pray that everyone under the sound of my voice can know your peace, to know your joy, your strength as we daily look to you for all that we have, all that we want, all that our circumstances, our trials, our fears.
Father, just help us to crawl up in your lap and say, daddy, you got this. I know you can and I know you will. We just thank you and praise you for that today.
In Jesus name I pray. Amen.